A real phantasmagoria
IN 1900, a perfume was launched onto the Belgian market with a label showing an elegant woman on a blustery seafront clinging onto her hat as her skirts billowed out in front of her. Called Brise d’Ostende—Breeze of Ostend—the scent was manufactured by the grande parfumerie L. Spilliaert-Jonckheere in the fashionable Belgian seaside resort and the label was designed by the owner’s son.
Obliged by ill health to abandon his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bruges after only
